Search for dissertations about: "LoRDIA"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word LoRDIA.

  2. 1. Psychological perspectives on alcohol use among young adolescents: Mental health and personality

    Author : Karin Boson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; alcohol debut; alcohol inebriation; gender-specific patterns; mental health problems; mental well-being; personality; JTCI; young adolescents; LoRDIA;

    Abstract : Alcohol use is an important risk factor in psychosocial development through adolescence that has been incompletely examined among the youngest adolescents. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to investigate how mental health and personality traits are related to alcohol use and inebriation in early adolescence. READ MORE

  4. 2. Understanding the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin : Longitudinal investigations of inter-origin friendship formation

    Author : Olov Aronson; Disa Bergnéhr; Arne Gerdner; Sofia Enell; Michael Wells; Emma Sorbring; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social integration; friendship; adolescence; longitudinal; Sweden; LoRDIA; Resettlement Strategies in Families;

    Abstract : The present dissertation aims to understand some of the opportunities for, and influences on, the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin in Sweden. Informed by previous research, the dissertation suggests that successful social integration involves friendship formation between peers of similar origins (intra-origin friendship formation) as well as friendship formation between peers of different origins (inter-origin friendship formation). READ MORE

  5. 3. Teenage Kicks – The Differential Development of Drug Use, Drunkenness, and Criminal Behaviour in Early to Mid-Adolescence

    Author : Russell Turner; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Drug use; Drunkenness; Alcohol intoxication; Criminal behaviour; Delinquency; Adolescence; Adolescent development; Risk behaviour; Risk factor; Prevention; Critical realism; realist method; Person-oriented method;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the development of drug use, drunkenness, and criminal behaviour in early to mid-adolescence. Its main aims are to improve knowledge about how and why these three behaviours develop and to contribute towards the development of theory that can have applications in prevention policy and practice. The thesis comprises four studies. READ MORE

  6. 4. Predictors of mental health in adolescents - with a salutogenic perspective

    Author : Kristina Carlén; Sakari Suominen; Lilly Augustine; Matti Sillanpää; Einar Røshol Heiervang; Högskolan i Skövde; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; adolescents; DAWBA; mental health; predictors; resources; salutogenesis; Familjecentrerad hälsa FamCeH ; Family-Centred Health;

    Abstract : Mental health in adolescence is an increasing public health concern. Over half of all mental disorders debut by 14 years of age and remain largely untreated up to adulthood, which underlines the importance of early detection. READ MORE

  7. 5. Participation in and outside school : Self-ratings by Swedish adolescents with and without impairments and long-term health conditions

    Author : Frida Lygnegård; Karina Huus; Mats Granlund; Lilly Augustine; Curt Hagquist; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; participation; adolescents; everyday functioning; ICF-CY; self-ratings; self-reported neurodevelopmental impairments; person-oriented design;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns the short-term state of and changes in self-rated participation in domestic life, peer relations and, to some extent, school. Participants were adolescents with and without self-reported impairments and long-term health conditions. READ MORE